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Number of books sold in Sweden 2015-2016, by genre

Number of books sold in Sweden in 2015 and 2016, by genre (in thousands)

The data displays the number of books sold in Sweden in 2015 and 2016, by genre. In 2015, approx. 6.6 million children's and youth books were sold in Sweden.

Children and youth	6563	6665
Fiction	5621	5573
Crime and excitement	5109	4986
Humanities	3402	3269
Foreign literature	3024	3003
Reference books	2982	2921
Qualified reference books	1201	1112
Food and drinking	1269	1089
Unknown	1166	887

Number of books sold in Sweden 2015-2016, by genre

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